IPL playerIndia2024 to 2026
Ashutosh Sharma
Right-hand bat
Ashutosh Sharma, a batter, has played three IPL seasons for two franchises.
The arrival
Ashutosh Sharma arrived through the auction: Punjab Kings paid ₹20 lakh, the base price. That debut came after going unsold once (2022).
That first season brought 11 matches and 189 runs.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2025, for Delhi Capitals: 204 runs at an average of 29.1, striking at 160.6 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 152.9, with 1 fifty, and a highest score of 66 not out.
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2026: 171 runs at a strike rate of 181.9, 25 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.
Franchise by franchise
2024, Punjab Kings. Bought at the 2024 auction for ₹20 lakh. 11 matches and 189 runs.
2025 to 2026, Delhi Capitals. Bought at the 2025 auction for ₹3.80 cr. 21 matches and 375 runs.
2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Delhi Capitals, 2025 to 2026.
How the runs came
Across the career, Ashutosh Sharma has struck at 168.9. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 153.1, so Ashutosh Sharma has scored about 16 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 70% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 39 fours and 40 sixes.
The fielding record: 6 catches.
At the auction
Ashutosh Sharma has gone under the hammer three times, bought twice and left unsold once. The highest price was ₹3.80 cr, paid by Delhi Capitals in 2025, more than 12 times the base price. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹20 lakh in 2024, ₹3.80 cr by 2025. Unsold in 2022, Ashutosh Sharma was bought in 2024 by Punjab Kings.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
Where it stands
Ashutosh Sharma has made 32 IPL appearances, the latest for Delhi Capitals in 2026, and has won 1 player-of-the-match award.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Punjab Kings | 11 | 189 | 61 | 27.0 | 167.3 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 2 | ||
| 2025 | Delhi Capitals | 13 | 204 | 66* | 29.1 | 160.6 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | |
| 2026 | Delhi Capitals | 8 | 171 | 39 | 34.2 | 181.9 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 2 |
Franchise journey
- Punjab Kings: 2024
- Delhi Capitals: 2025 to 2026
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 31.1% |
| Balls per four | 8.6 |
| Balls per six | 8.4 |
| Catches | 6 |
| Run-outs | 0 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet